Recently, Republican Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Terry Branstad of Iowa appealed to those wanting to flee liberal California. Move your business to our state, they implore. Well welcome you with open arms here. They should be careful what they wish for.

When my wife and I used to vacation in Colorado in the 1970s, I started noticing bumper stickers that read Dont Californicate Colorado. The initial movement that spawned that sentiment was a way for Colorado residents to express their disapproval of how Southern California had exploded with seemingly unlimited development. However, since that time, Californicate has taken on a whole new meaning.

In September 2011, a frustrated but perceptive blogger at the libertarian website Western Hero summed up the feelings of many in Colorado thusly: We used to be a good mix of libertarian liberals and conservatives with a live and let live attitude. Not anymore. Were now getting stupider, and this is being powered by the mass influx of east coast and west coast liberals into the liberal loon town of Denver. You can see evidence of this in online forums. Enlightened progressives sing Obamas praises and remark what an east coast feel Denver has, and they are right. It is now easily the least Colorado part of the state. Reminds me of the old saying: Half the people of Colorado live in Denver, and the rest of us are glad they do!

They may live in Denver, but their ideology has spread like a cancer to every area of the state, mainly because liberals always think they know better how to run everyone elses life, and they are more than happy to do so.

Former Denver Mayor and now Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is no exception. Hickenlooper is now parroting Barack Obama while wringing his hands about gun violence and repeating the line, If it saves just one life, we have to do something!

Unfortunately, Colorado is not alone in its drift to the left. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll, one of the ten most liberal states in the country is now New Hampshire. Thats right. The Live Free or Die! state. So what happened? Massachusetts happened, thats what. Residents of the Bay State, including business owners fleeing from crushing taxes and regulations, moved to New Hampshire. All was fine for a while. New Hampshire was happy to have the business, and they welcomed their new neighbors.

Then, inevitably, election seasons began to roll around, and those self-transplants from Massachusetts began to vote for the same sort of meddling liberal politicians who had enslaved them and their businesses back home. And so, in 2012, New Hampshire helped re-elect Barack Obama and gained the dubious distinction of becoming one of the top ten most liberal states in the country.

Finally, consider California itself. The Golden State, which once gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (the last Republican presidential candidate to carry it), has become the land of Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Jerry Brown. And the invasion of illegal aliens has all but ensured that it will take a miracle for the GOP ever to carry the state again.

In the case of Texas, it is one of the last holdouts for freedom, as evidenced by the 2012 election of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. It is fiscally and socially conservative, with no state income tax and with perhaps as many guns in private hands as in the rest of the nation combined.

Iowa is more of a mixed bag. In fact, the voters are almost schizophrenic in their voting patterns. Branstad was returned to office in 2010 after 12 years of Democratic governors, but the state went for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Like Minnesota to its north, the Hawkeye State elects a conservative like Chuck Grassley to the U.S. Senate one cycle and a liberal like Tom Harkin the next. Yet, when the Iowa Supreme Court arbitrarily legalized same sex marriage a few years ago, the voters mobilized to throw half the court off the bench.

In any case, both Perry and Branstad should be very careful what they wish for. Like New Hampshire, they just might get it.

liberals are like a cancer. Once they have invaded a healthy area of the country and sucked the life out of it, they move on to another healthy area of the country. The next logical area for them to invade is Texas.

Well, that's really it. It isn't so much about transplanted ideologies as it is the intended effect of public education in all 50 states. Once the Left takes aim at a state, they find it relatively easy to subvert its historical culture and move it Left - the average voter is utterly ignorant of history and civics and can be easily persuaded to support liberal candidates when promised free stuff.

Texas basically already is a blue state. Nothing would improve our government more than their radical left wing Senator being removed. He is packing our government with Chaffee/Specter/Crist Republicans and eliminating conservatives. No current senator has damaged our country more than him. I don’t agree with the Bushes on much, but he was right when he said Texas would be a blue state in 2016.

Then you have Alaska that continues to attract conservatives from all over; the Repubs have a lock on politics up here. I really believe the reason is people move to Ak for the outdoor lifestyle (hunting, fishing, rural freedom loving types).

If they take Texas, can we have California? I love the climate there. NorCal is beautiful black sand and who couldn’t love San D? San Fran is on my list of places to visit. Of course, I would hate to lose Texas, but it seems inevitable.

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posted on 03/23/2013 7:54:01 AM PDT
by momincombatboots
(Back to West by G-d Virginia.)

It is indeed. I’m no city guy. I’m a desert-fied mountain hick. But I completely understand his frustration with what the hipsters did to his home.

Every, and I mean EVERYthing about that ‘culture’ is the polar opposite of “American”, and he nailed them exactly with the terminology he used. “Kidults”, Funemployed” “Playcationing”. Each and every one describes ‘liberal’ to a tee.

The way they took over and destroyed Brooklyn is exactly what they did to California, Colorado and New Hampshire. The only difference is that they did it with the addition of bad art, poor fashion sense and Dad;s trust fund to add flare.

My hometown in the Adirondacks of NY was similarly destroyed by the Sierra Club and Adirondack Park agency. It’s now a wasteland. All industry gone, local business on life support. But the libs love going there to commune with nature. And hate the townies with a passion.

Strangely, that area is slated to be human free under Agenda 21 and the Turtle Island Project.

Almost like there’s a connection between all this. Because many of the places in ‘Flyoverlandia” the Hipsters come to Brooklyn from are likewise slated as nature preserves.

There is one thing that baffles me about Brooklyn...HOW did they survive the gangs and the mob? NO WAY they opened all those artinanal whatever boutiques without some local ‘involvement’. And they are all sitting ducks for a mugging.

I’ll wager that they get “hit” by gangs and mafia guys more than we know. I have had some interaction with hipsters and they are concentrated progressivism incarnate. Entitled, self-absorbed children in adult bodies living on other peoples’ money (namely that of mom and dad). In many ways, they are a contemporary flavour of the hippies of yore.

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posted on 03/23/2013 5:58:17 PM PDT
by Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)

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